I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.

  • PowerUser [they/them]
    ·
    4 years ago

    forced collectivization severely disrupted traditional peasant agricultural practices

    What does this actually mean though?

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      A big part was they stopped doing crop rotation, especially because of the immense pressure to push up yields

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
        2·
        4 years ago

        no, the collectivization had to take place

        Tsarist "Stolypin reforms" gave preference to rich kulaks&nanny state capitalism propped up rich landowners above poor

        "Stolypin reforms" gave undue market access & held back real class mobility

        rich "khutors" & a form of nanny state capitalism artificially created a mass of poor & powerless farm hands who had to give their entire lives in order to stay a near serf basically

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EonoId_W4AAMHs-?format=png&name=medium

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EonoJX-W8AEq1ky?format=png&name=medium

        the backwardness of their inefficient feudal style agricultural production guaranteed shortage

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epg_HctW8AEK7so?format=jpg&name=medium

        Stalin said "forced collectivization" wasn't the correct way, as he didn't have dictatorial control over the areas

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epg_JNxW8AU9PHb?format=png&name=900x900

        http://jstor.org/stable/4202829

        Kulaks infiltrated collectives& ruined them as well as committing many other crimes

        they were feudal era producers that could not feed the masses as was needed for these areas to progress, they had to be supplanted

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqN4Yb4XEAA3cOp?format=jpg&name=medium

        whole country was modernizing& mechanizing... there were no real tractors or modern technological agriculture in these areas at the time

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo2uqDeXUAAIlr-?format=png&name=medium

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epb_HP7XIAE0NmJ?format=jpg&name=medium

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epb_IkvXYAAg0I7?format=png&name=medium

        And yet despite this, the first successful year of collectivization implementation in 1930-31 literally more than tripled the amount harvested from Kulak style backward methods in just 2 years

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpjmCsvW4AAkSzL?format=jpg&name=medium